Therapeutic potentials of plant secondary metabolites for future contribution

Herbal medicines are one of the important cultural and traditional parts of the people. Today, most of the world population depends on herbal medicines for their health care needs. The biochemistry of medicines based on traditional natural products has made a tremendous contribution to public healthcare and has boosted the development of affordable medicines globally. Natural products are a potential supply for novel biologically active compounds that could lead to the innovation of new therapeutics. Hence, nature is the exclusive and ultimate source of all such drugs. From a drug discovery perspective, plant chemical molecules will hit the drug target at specific sites and rule over the synthetic compound. Significantly, natural products and their derivatives contribute to more than half of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved drugs. Thus, plant chemical constituents are one of the richest hot spots for most significant new drug discoveries.

Author(s): Mamta Kumari, Jagdeep Singh

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